tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post4124363817159511313..comments2018-05-14T15:57:17.930-04:00Comments on In the Middle: TAGJeffrey Cohenhttps://plus.google.com/110433684739546897626noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-2465010312951385282013-10-24T14:45:41.683-04:002013-10-24T14:45:41.683-04:00Thanks for your kind comments here, Nathaniel [eve...Thanks for your kind comments here, Nathaniel [even if you didn&#39;t like my Prelude to Frandenburg&#39;s new book, but don&#39;t dismiss the whole book as it comprises 5 authors, all of whom write in different styles]. punctum doesn&#39;t care, btw, and neither does BABEL, how many or which degrees anyone has. You just have to want to be part of a conversation. And yeah, I know you know that.Eileen Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756965845120441308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-998656159091753832013-10-24T09:15:56.262-04:002013-10-24T09:15:56.262-04:00&quot;Construction (a form of affirmation) always ...<i>&quot;Construction (a form of affirmation) always trumps complaint (too easy, too lazy).&quot;</i><br /><br />Words I would do well to actually ponder! Despite my dis-ease in this neighborhood (so to speak), I feel both an obligation to try (in part because BABEL was so kind to help me present at K&#39;zoo this year) and a shared goal, if not a shared methodology.<br /><br />That is to say, a significant goal of ITM, BABEL, Punctum, et al. is to open up opportunities especially to scholars/academics who often find themselves on the outside of the given paradigm. Eileen&#39;s sheer enthusiasm for encouraging new/experimental scholarly work by anybody she meets, whether they&#39;re tenured or a graduate student or somewhere in between, is infectious. It is also beneficial for someone like me, who chose to leave grad school with a Master&#39;s so that his spouse could take a full-time position elsewhere. I still want to be a scholar, but the current paradigms of academia don&#39;t often look kindly on scholarly work produced by kids with Master&#39;s degrees. The one bright, shining exception on a hill that I have met is the enthusiasm that y&#39;all have for us misfits. And for that enthusiasm and patience, I owe you thanks!<br /><br />(Remind me of that debt the next time I start to kvetch!)Nathaniel M. Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01835009706332559978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-90641840514640697362013-10-23T19:54:39.345-04:002013-10-23T19:54:39.345-04:00That&#39;s why it&#39;s so good that the blogivers...That&#39;s why it&#39;s so good that the blogiverse is so vast: if you don&#39;t find something that suits you -- if you don&#39;t want to read about Carolingian charters (or don&#39;t know enough Latin); or don&#39;t want to see how Foucault and Morton open ancient texts to new possibility (or don&#39;t care to read deeply in theory so that you can follow along) -- then there is plenty more out there. AND, best of all, when there is little you like, you can start your own forum and kindle your own community -- not necessarily open to all (some exclusions will always be inbuilt), but open to strangers, to new friends, new kinds of creation and belonging. <br /><br />Construction (a form of affirmation) always trumps complaint (too easy, too lazy).Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-88212034706309161952013-10-23T19:33:16.280-04:002013-10-23T19:33:16.280-04:00I apologize for an overhasty evaluation. I misunde...I apologize for an overhasty evaluation. I misunderstood that the PALFRY section, which &quot;approaches the medieval world in the spirit of collaboration&quot;, is different from the TAG section.<br /><br />(Part of the in-crowd/out-crowd dynamic that I&#39;ve noticed at ITM and other post-medieval themed spaces is the jargon in which they swim. As much as I respect Eileen Joy, for example, I tried but soon gave up at reading her &quot;Prelude&quot; to Aranye Fradenburg&#39;s new book, as it remained opaque to my mind. The frustration is probably as much my own fault as anything else. But it&#39;s there nonetheless.)Nathaniel M. Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01835009706332559978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-28870509846890829472013-10-23T14:36:40.086-04:002013-10-23T14:36:40.086-04:00Hi Nathan, you might want to read the linked mater...Hi Nathan, you might want to read the linked materials more carefully before leaving a dismissive comment like that: TAG does not make any claims (so far as I can see) to be anything like an open access or open submission project. Or were you just grumpily saying that&#39;s what it should be, because that&#39;s what you want it to be, regardless of how the project has been framed by its creators? You want a game of tag in which everyone is &quot;it&quot; all the time? I&#39;m not really sure that works, and I&#39;m not sure it&#39;s fair for you to demand that from the project&#39;s creators. I&#39;m very much looking forward, as an excluded onlooker myself, to how this particular and highly literary version of the game plays out.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-45324869741669907742013-10-23T14:13:37.147-04:002013-10-23T14:13:37.147-04:00&quot;We don&#39;t accept submissions. The game is...<i>&quot;We don&#39;t accept submissions. The game is tag. You should hide and we&#39;ll seek you out.&quot;</i><br /><br />In other words: despite protestations of openness, this is really an exercise for the &quot;in&quot; crowd, since if you aren&#39;t known to the &quot;in&quot; crowd (and thus known to be someone they should tag), they won&#39;t accept your submission.Nathaniel M. Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01835009706332559978noreply@blogger.com